Chinese Traditional Healing Set

The Berlin Collections of Manuscript Volumes from the 16th Through the Early 20th Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22525-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 2828 Seiten, 3 vols, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 4672 g

Reihe: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series

Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of data. They extend the reach of medical historiography beyond the literature written by and for a small social elite to the reality of health care as practiced by private households, lay healers, pharmacists, professional doctors, magicians, itinerant healers and others. The nearly 900 volumes surveyed here for the first time demonstrate the heterogeneity of Chinese traditional healing. They evidence the continuation of millennia-old therapeutic approaches long discarded by the elite, and they show continuous adaptation to more recent trends.

Zielgruppe

Sinologists; historians of Chinese medicine; physicians/practitioners/lay persons interested in traditional Chinese medicine; anthropologists; ethnologists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unschuld, Paul

Zheng, Jinsheng

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Komplementäre Medizin, Asiatische Medizin (TCM), Heilpraktiker
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Über Autor(innen)

Zheng, Jinsheng
Zheng Jinsheng, is Professor and former (1993-1997) Director of the Research Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Literature of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing.

Unschuld, Paul
Paul U. Unschuld, is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz-Research Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences, Charité Universitäts-medizin Berlin.

Paul U. Unschuld, is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz-Research Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences, Charité Universitäts-medizin Berlin.
Zheng Jinsheng, is Professor and former (1993-1997) Director of the Research Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Literature of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing.